The great thing about medicinal herbs is you don’t have to stock up on a huge supply. Instead, you can grow most of them throughout the year and harvest what you need as you go. But unless you have lots of time and space, you should focus on herbs that [...]Keep Reading →

Preppers are excellent planners and can typically mull over every possible scenario that could plunge them into a survival situation. During this mulling over, every aspect of survival is carefully considered, right down to where a person will use the facilities when there is no public water and the toilets [...]Keep Reading →

When I was 5, I used to spend entire summers with my self-sufficient grandparents, far away from noisy, crowded cities. Even though I didn’t know it back then, I was doing a lot of things that made me a prepper even before the word was actually invented… things that taught [...]Keep Reading →

It’s mid-June and it’s already sweltering where I live. Some meteorologists are predicting this summer could be the hottest summer on record. Many people forget that in a disaster, heat can be deadly, too. Because we have air conditioned homes, cars, and offices, many of us don’t think about the [...]Keep Reading →

A few years ago the New York Times published an article about how a third of people don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom. Pretty gross, but it’s okay since we live in a relatively clean society. There is plenty of soap and running water available for the rest of us [...]Keep Reading →

One of the reasons I got interested in home remedies is because of how bad the economy is. It got me thinking that during an inflationary depression, I might not have extra money for cold medicines, pain killers and the like. And hospitals are likely to be so crowded that [...]Keep Reading →

The older I get, the more concerned I am with survival fitness. I’ve only posted one other article on fitness, “Getting In Shape For TEOTWAWKI,” but I’ve learned a few things since them. Much of my learning is from The Primal Blueprint. I highly recommend that book. It completely changed [...]Keep Reading →

One of the biggest problems with prepping is that it’s expensive. I think that’s why my post, 20 Uses For Baking Soda, was so popular. Instead of buying soap, dish soap, toothpaste, cleaners, deodorizers, etc., you can just buy a couple big bags of baking soda and save lots of [...]Keep Reading →

Survival antibiotics are often overlooked by preppers. One reason is because preppers don’t know which ones to buy or even where to get them. Another reason is because they haven’t needed them before so they forget they might need them in the future. That was the reason I hadn’t stocked [...]Keep Reading →

Have you ever had a really bad tooth ache? One so bad you couldn’t concentrate on anything or even sleep at night? I have. And let me tell you, it’s no picnic. Pain killers and Orajel weren’t enough. I was in so much pain that I was calling every dentist [...]Keep Reading →

If you or someone you know is pregnant or has a baby, check out these videos by The Patriot Nurse. Ever since the great recession began, some people have been afraid to have children. They’d rather wait until after the economy collapses and recovers. The problem is, no one knows [...]Keep Reading →

After fears that Japanese nuclear plants would experience Chernobyl-like meltdowns, people have started stocking up on potassium iodide, especially those on the West coast of the United States. While I think the media sensationalized this story and people in the U.S. overreacted, it certainly doesn’t hurt to be prepared. But [...]Keep Reading →